Shazam vs. SoundHound

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Shazam and SoundHound are probably the best music identification
services. They are available for various
platforms and they are practically giants in music identification category. We
tried to identify many random songs using this apps. So let’s see,
SoundHound or Shazam?

Test 1

M83 – Midnight City (Eric Prydz Private Remix)

We intentionally played a part of the song where there are
no lyrics and we searched for a remix. SoundHound guessed the right song.
Shazam gave a result faster, but it gave the original song by M83, not the remix
by Eric Prydz that we searched for.

Test 2

Aire – Los Cafres

We randomly found this song on YouTube. Later we found out that
Los Cafres are Argentinian reggae band. Anyway, Shazam found the song fast and
gave correct results, but SoundHound didn’t find any results at all.-->
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Test 3

Mantovani – Maria, Elena

Both SoundHound and Shazam gave fast, correct results on this instrumental song.

Test 4

Zdravko Colic – Ti mozes sve, al’ jedno ne

Zdravko Colic is maybe the biggest music star on the
Balkans. We tried to identify one of his biggest hits, “Ti mozes sve, al’ jedno
ne” which is singed on Serbian Language and only Shazam found the song.

Test 5

Notorious B.I.G – The world is filled ..

Both SoundHound and Shazam gave fast and correct results of this hip hop
classic performed by Biggie.

Our Verdict: Shazam

It’s a close call, but we also tried to identify many other
songs, and it seems that Shazam could identify any song, from various
countries, which SoundHound couldn’t. Although SoundHound has much more cooler
design, Shazam will always be my first choice.

You may also want to check out Google Sound Search which threatens to become
great competitor to Shazam and SoundHound. Too bad is only available in the
United States.